An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 969
/An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language
An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 969
WHISTLE-BINKIE, _s._ One who attends a penny-wedding, but without paying any thing, and therefore has no right to take any share of the entertainment; who is as it were left to sit on a _bench_ by himself, and may _whistle_ for his own amus.e.m.e.nt, Aberd.
WHISTLE-THE-WHAUP, a phrase addressed to one who is supposed to play upon another, West of S.
_To_ WHITE, _v. a._ To cut with a knife, S.
V. ~Quhyte~.
_Burns._
WHITE-ABOON-GLADE, _s._ The Henharrier, Stirlings.
_Stat. Acc._
Corresponding with Lanarius _albus_, Le Lanier _cendre_, &c.
WHITE BONNET, one who, in a sale by auction, bids for his own goods, or who is employed by the owner for this purpose, S.
WHITE FISH IN THE NET, a sport in which two persons hold a plaid pretty high, over which the rest of the company are obliged to leap. The object is to entangle the person who leaps; and if thus intercepted he loses the game, Ang.
WHITE-HORSE, the Fuller ray, a fish.
_Sibbald._
WHITIE-WHATIES, _s. pl._ Silly pretences, from a design to procrastinate, or to blind S.; _whittie-whaws_, S. B.
A. S. _hwata_, omina, divinationes, auguria; Belg. _wisiewasie_, fiddle-faddle; C. B. _chwit-chwat_, a sly pilferer.
WHITLIE, QUHITELY, _adj._ Having a delicate or fading look, S.
_Henrysone._
A. S. _hwit_, albus, and _lic_, similis.
WHITLING, WHITEN, WHITING, _s._ A species of sea-trout, S.
_Stat. Acc._
Sw. _hwitling_, a whiting.
WHITRACK-SKIN, _s._ A purse made of the skin of a weasel, Moray.
V. ~Quhitred~.
_Pop. Ball._
WHITTER, _s._ A hearty draught of liquor, S. O.
_Burns._
Q. _whetter_, from E. _whet_.
WHITTLE, _s._
1. A knife, S. as in E.
2. Applied to the harvest-hook, S.
_A. Douglas._
WHITTRET, _s._ The weasel.
V. ~Quhitred~.
WHORLE, _s._
1. A very small wheel, S.
2. The fly of a spinning-rock, made of wood, sometimes of a hard stone, S. _whirl_, E.
_Barry._
Su. G. _harfwel_, _hwirfwel_, id., verticillum; O. Sw. _hworla_, rotare.
_To_ WHOSLE, _v. n._ To breathe hard, to wheeze, Aberd.
V. ~Wheasle~.
_Journ. Lond._
_To_ WHUMMIL, WHOMEL, _v. a._ To turn upside down.
V. ~Quhemle~.